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The third Next 5 Minutes, an Amsterdam based conference on tactical communications culture, featuring do-it-yourself media, dissident art and electronic media activists from around the world, took place on the 12th, 13th and 14th of March 1999.

On Friday April 3, 2009 we received the terribly sad news that our
friend and ever inspiring colleague Oleg Kireev from Moscow had died,
apparently as a result of suicide. We are left behind as friends and
colleagues, bereaved and puzzled by this dramatic fact. Kireev was a
prominent guest in some of the most important projects in the art /
media / politics triangle, which we had the honour developing at De
Balie. Kireev was a crucial figure in circles of free culture, media
activism and the arts in Moscow, one of the most demanding environments
for such activity one can think of.

International public seminar and evening screening program on the recent outbursts of social protest and their media strategies, hosted by De Balie, centre for culture and politics in Amsterdam, Friday September 30, 2011.

Open11_Hybrid_Space.pdf, 3,5 MiBTheme issue of OPEN, journal for Art and the Public Domain, published by the Foundation for Art and Public Space (SKOR), Amsterdam & NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, Fall 2008.

Out now and available for download:INC Network Notebooks 05 - Legacies of Tactical MediaTactical Media employ the 'tactics of the weak' to operate on the terrain of strategic power by means of 'any media necessary'. Once the rather exclusive practice of politically engaged artists and activists, the tactical appropriations of media tools and distribution infrastructures by the disenfranchised and the disgruntled have moved from the margins to centre stage.